Palestine Think Tank

Palestinians have lost hope a long time ago with the many governmental and state personalities making their routine visits to Palestine, making their rounds as if they came for tourism, turning the blind eye on the misery of the Palestinians and their plight.
The Palestinians were feeling disappointed with the previous British PM Tony Blair when [...]

Back in 2003 I wrote, “If ‘world peace’ is our main concern, we must achieve a balance of power, we must let the oppressed people of this world have access to the most advanced weaponry…. Balance of power is the only key to peace.” Nowadays, when Israel and its supportive lobbies are doing everything within [...]

WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM TURNER
Do we carry our prejudices with us wherever we go?
When I see Gaza being bombed or the settlers beating up old Palestinian women on their own land, I feel outraged.
When I see Israelis lamenting about the homemade rockets hitting their houses and a child loses a leg, [...]

Israeli ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor has once again claimed that the United Kingdom is becoming a “hotbed” of anti-Israeli propaganda.
In an opinion piece published in Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph, Prosor alleged out that Israel was facing an intensified campaign of delegitimization, demonization and double standards.
“Britain has become a hotbed for radical anti-Israeli views and a [...]

Palestinian mission in London is failing Gazans in their “darkest hour”, campaigners say
The Palestinian representative to Britain should wake up, get his act together and robustly defend his people’s cause or else pack up and go home, British peace campaigners have warned Dr Manuel Hassassian in a scathing message.
British peace campaigners* have told the Palestinian [...]

On the second of May 2008 the Frontline Club in London supported the Press Freedom Network in UK under the patronage of the National Commission for the UNESCO and invited an array of journalists and media professionals from all over the country to vote on the motion ‘New Media is Killing Journalism’.
This initiative was held [...]

WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM TURNER*
Today in the Parliamentary Question Time Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister answered questions about the Myanmar crisis caused by the cyclone that hit the country over a week ago. Among the measures he called for was an emergency meeting of the United Nations to call on the Military Junta of Myanmar [...]

(from The Independent) As far as the organisers of the exhibition are concerned, these photographs of Arab refugees, displaced from their homes in Israel in 1948, are merely an artistic slice of life from a dramatic point in Middle Eastern history.

But the Barbican Arts Centre’s show Homeland Lost, consisting of 16 black and white images [...]